According to Dr John Irvine, &#39;hundreds of hours&#39; of playing violent, realistic games was not only desensitising young minds but programming them to respond aggressively. <img alt="Representational pic" src="http://www.mid-day.com/imagedata/2012/jul/games.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 338px; " /> Representational pic &ldquo;It&rsquo;s impacting on the thinking of young kids and they really feel like they&rsquo;re in the game,&rdquo; the Telegraph quoted Dr Irvine, as saying. &ldquo;So really it&rsquo;s rewiring kids&rsquo; brains so when they get to a real situation where there&rsquo;s a confrontation I think their brains are flicking into the games they spent hundreds of hours playing.&rdquo; Dr Irvine said that children exposed to violence at home were the most likely to respond aggressively but video games - when combined with &ldquo;alcohol and a bit of bravado&rdquo; - were responsible for an increase in referrals for aggressive behaviour. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been in the game probably longer than most child psychologists and I have seen the change. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a real toxic formula, even for the kids that are pretty well balanced. What all the violence does is it gives them a tolerance of violence, it doesn&rsquo;t repulse them,&rdquo; he said.u00a0

Violent video games are 'rewiring' young brains, so that when a real confrontation was combined with alcohol it created a 'toxic formula' a leading child psychologist claimed

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